Senior software developers collaborate with business and quality analysts, designers, project managers and more to design software solutions that will create meaningful change for our clients. They listen thoughtfully to understand the context of a business problem and write clean and iterative code to deliver a powerful end result whilst consistently advocating for better engineering practices. By balancing strong opinions with a willingness to find the right answer, senior software developers bring integrity to technology, ensuring all voices are heard. 

For a team to thrive, it needs collaboration and room for healthy, respectful debate. Senior developers are the technologists who cultivate this environment while driving teams toward delivering on an aspirational tech vision and acting as mentors for more junior-level consultants. You will leverage deep technical knowledge to solve complex business problems and proactively assess your team’s health, code quality and nonfunctional requirements.

• You will learn and adopt best practices like writing clean and reusable code using TDD, pair programming and design patterns.
• You will use and advocate for continuous delivery practices to deliver high-quality software as well as value to end customers as early as possible.
• You will drive the AI-first software delivery strategy by strategically integrating and utilizing AI tools throughout the development lifecycle to enhance productivity, ensure high-quality code and create capacity for more complex and creative problem-solving.
• You will work in collaborative, value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients.
• You will create large-scale distributed systems out of microservices.
• You will collaborate with a variety of teammates to build features, design concepts and interactive prototypes and ensure best practices and UX specifications are embedded along the way.
• You will efficiently utilize DevSecOps tools and practices to build and deploy software, advocating devops culture and shifting security left in development.
• You will oversee or take part in the entire cycle of software consulting and delivery from ideation to deployment and everything in between.
• You will act as a mentor for less-experienced peers through both your technical knowledge and leadership skills. 

This means more than just years of experience. It usually implies the person can:

• Own features or projects end-to-end
• Make technical decisions independently
• Mentor junior developers
• Review code and improve team standards
• Debug complex production issues
• Balance speed, quality, and scalability
• Communicate with product managers, designers, and stakeholders

Java

This refers mainly to backend development using Java. Typical responsibilities include:

• Building APIs and microservices
• Business logic implementation
• Integrating databases
• Security and authentication
• Performance tuning
• Working with frameworks like Spring / Spring Boot

Full Stack

This means they work on both:

Backend

Server-side systems, databases, APIs, cloud infrastructure

Frontend

User-facing interfaces in the browser

+ JavaScript / TypeScript

This means they are also strong in frontend technologies like:

• JavaScript for interactive web apps
• TypeScript for safer, scalable codebases
• Modern frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue

What they usually do day-to-day

A Senior Java Full Stack Developer may:

• Build new product features from database to UI
• Design REST or GraphQL APIs
• Write frontend components and dashboards
• Review pull requests
• Improve architecture and code quality
• Fix production bugs quickly
• Help plan sprints and estimate work
• Mentor teammates

Common Tech Stack

Examples often include:

• Backend: Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate
• Frontend: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Angular
• Database: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB
• DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD
• Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP

What companies usually expect

When hiring for this role, employers often want someone who can:

• Work independently with minimal supervision
• Ship production-ready code
• Understand system design
• Handle both frontend and backend tasks
• Lead technical discussions
• Improve team productivity